Clinician

Job Location:

SGCH New Tomorrow Resiliency Center
- Brownsville, TX 78526, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: Master's Degree, Job Shift: Day.

The clinician at Sunny Glen Children’s Home is responsible for providing mental health/counseling services for Unaccompanied Children assigned. The clinician is to maintain an appropriate caseload and is expected to provide individual and group counseling to Unaccompanied Children while in care. The Clinician is responsible for ensuring strict deadlines and time frames are met, with reference to record-keeping and assessments/screenings. The clinician will abide by ORR, state, and other contractual guidelines and time frames.

Must provide child-facing services on-site.

• Provide individual and group counseling services to Children while in care.
• Maintain appropriate caseload.
• Conduct mental health assessments, screenings, as well as trafficking screenings.
• Complete well written, clinical documentation
• Adhere to all time frames & deadlines as per state, ORR, and internal policies and procedures.
• Provide crisis intervention.
• Provide on-call coverage based on program needs.
• Coordinate with third-party contracts, ORR, and other outside service providers to share and staff all pertinent information and updates on Child and mental health status.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (English & Spanish)
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of professional and clinical skills.
• Must abide by Sunny Glen Children’s Home’s mission of giving nurturing, trauma-informed care to children from difficult backgrounds.
• Learn and abide by Sunny Glen Children’s Home policies and procedures.
• Learn and stay within Minimum Standards
• Learns and abides by TBRI and Handle with Care
• Work independently and as a team
• Maintain appropriate boundaries.
• Attend training and meetings, as scheduled.
• Possess sensitivity to the residents’ cultural and socio‑economic characteristics.
• Be a positive role model for residents.
• Uses strong organizational skills.
• Participate in licensing investigations accordingly.
• Coordinate all referrals, service planning, and client documentation for assigned caseload (clinical assessments, incident reports, progress notes, etc.)
• Participate in weekly staff/team meetings and training.
• Participate in workshops, seminars, education programs and other activities that promote professional growth and development.
• Maintain a full caseload, complete with admission assessments, individual service plans, individual service plan updates, monthly summaries, case notes, incident reports, etc.
• Meets with each child on caseload at least once a week or more as needed.
• Prepare, compile, and submit accurate documentation in case management software.
• Continually assess ongoing changes in behavior, circumstances, or conditions that may affect child safety or well‑being.
• Monitors child’s services, ensures all required services are delivered, and sets and attends appointments with outside mental health services.
• Maintains a clinical, therapeutic, and trauma‑informed view of each child in his/her caseload and helps staff develop this perspective.
• Assess client progress toward risk reduction, achievement of treatment goals, and positive case outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records, files, forms, statistics, and additional relevant information in accordance with agency policy, licensing, and/or funding requirements.
• Work the on-call rotation to assist with campus emergencies and clinical needs.
• Assist in training staff.
• The employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.
• Other duties may be assigned.

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